Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That Reuben Lively, of St. Clair county, George Thomason, of Randolph county, and James Bradley, of Jackson county, be, and they are hereby, appointed commissioners to view, survey, and locate, a State road from Belleville, St. Clair county, to Athens, Columbus, and Georgetown, to Brownsville, in Jackson county.

Sec. 2. Said commissioners, or a majority of them, shall meet at Belleville, on the first Monday in Aprtl next, or as soon as practicable thereafter, and, after being duly sworn to discharge their duties impartially and to the best of their judgment, shall proceed to lay out and establish said road on the most eligible route, and make return thereof to the several county commissioners’ courts, of so much of said road as may be located in each of said counties; which shall be recorded, filed, and preserved.

Sec. 3. The county commissioners’ courts of the several counties through which said road shall be located shall pay to said commissioners, surveyor, and hands, a reasonable compensation for said services, the bill being made out with a view to the distance of road in each county; and the proportion due shall be certified by the commissioners herein stated, and, being so done, the counties shall pay the same.

Approved, March 2, 1839.